Everyday Canvas

Confidence and Re-learning

Prompt: “Confidence Is Silent; Insecurities Are Loud.” Brandy Lidbeck
In what ways does this quote apply to real life and to your experiences?

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In my experience, people who took every opportunity to boast by highlighting their achievements and skills or even the royalty of their ancestors have been the ones who were the most insecure in their own two shoes. A truly confident and secure person doesn’t need to advertise himself. I am not saying that a person should deny their high points but always trying to switch people’s attentions to that area shows some internal inferiority problems.

Those who experience a calm, justified confidence from within, even if they are pleased with the praise they get, they don’t find it important. Fact is, although being praised helps build one’s self-esteem, in the long term, depending on that praise does not make sense because secure people are not the ones to rely on others’ opinions about their selves. Instead, they mind their own business, which usually is bettering themselves and living their lives as fully as they can.

Prompt: “Hold out the possibility that what you have learned isn’t true.” Doug Nelson
Another what if question in this quote. Can you think of a thing or things, which may not be true that you have learned to be true?

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Some of the things I have learned and things that are taught to masses have proven to be totally incorrect or with missing parts. For example, in our time, we have found out the communism has been a failure on a grand scale.

Then, once upon a time, people were taught that the earth was flat. Today we know better.

On a smaller scale, take the medical beliefs. Because I tested with high cholesterol about 25 years ago, I was put on a fatless diet. I got sicker that what any high cholesterol could have done to me, and my cholesterol count didn’t improve on a fat-free diet, either, because part of my problem might be genetic. Today, I have a manageable diet and medication, and my count shows up in the normal range.

Then, in the beginning of the 20th century, they performed lobotomy on some patients with psychiatric problems. They had learned (falsely) that lobotomy could be a cure. Nothing could be further from the truth.

Yet, what is the truth behind anything and how do we reach it? I guess it will be by learning and relearning, and never trusting fully what we have learned previously, especially in the field of medicine.